A new study has revealed that Africa may not have been the birthplace of humans. In fact the study proves that Eurasia had ancestors long before we thought.

An international team of researchers has presented this week the analysis of a fossil discovered in Bulgaria that could ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A handful of teeth found at ...

But they add one caveat. Someday, they say, the researchers must teach them how to get history from the ground. The quest for fossils of human ancestors began in earnest after Charles Darwin proposed ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools by ...

(Produced in partnership with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey) Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey takes place 10 million years in the past with the player assuming control of a clan of our pre-human ...